Re: Cool but ugly SQL

On 6/15/06, Fisher, Don <dfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Try this:
With TempFile as (Select shh_lib, shh_file, shh_member,
max(char(shh_LCDate)
|| char(shh_LCTime)) as datetime from SRCMBRHASH group by shh_lib,
shh_file,
shh_member) select * from SRCMBRHASH a join TempFile b on a.shh_lib =
b.shh_lib and a.shh_file = b.shh_file and a.shh_member = b.shh_member and
char(a.shh_LCDate || char(a.shh_LCTime) = b.datetime where etc...

Hope that helps.

Absolutely.  Wow.  I would have never found that on my own.  Is this
considered a subquery?

OK, this is almost complete now.  I figured it would be easy enough to tack
on the INSERT INTO after I got the SELECT figured out.  I first tried
placing it between the "With ()" and "Select * from SRCMBRHASH" stuff, but
got:
 Keyword INSERT not expected. Valid tokens: ( SELECT.

So I tried placing the INSERT INTO at the very beginning, before the "With
()", but got:
 Token TEMPFILE was not valid. Valid tokens: ) ,.

Many, MANY thanks!
- Dan